A climate activist in British Columbia says he is packing his bags and plans to report to Vancouver airport at the end of the week to face deportation back to Pakistan, believed to be from Canada. Their elimination is “certain” without ministerial intervention.
Zain Haque, who came to Canada for the first time on a student visa, said he was at the airport to catch a flight to Toronto before he was due to fly back to Pakistan on Sunday.
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Haque says he and his Canadian wife, Sophia Pape, woke up in “disbelief” when faced with the prospect of moving out of the country after what the couple described as a bureaucratic snafu that caused their A husband’s application for permanent residence has been derailed.
Haq, an international student activist group that saved the old development, pleaded guilty in 2023 to five charges for their role in environmental protests that blocked roadways in 2023 and 2022.
He was granted a temporary permit to stay in Canada last April, but Haque says his request to stay on humanitarian and compassionate grounds was denied even though his crimes were non-violent and he and Pep There is no threat to public safety.
Haq says he is still holding out hope for Immigration Minister Mark Miller to stop deportations.
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